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By Jack Zinman (Sports Correspondent) Arizona Cardinals Nick Bosa, EDGE, Ohio State The Cardinals need to make a big splash with the first selection in this years draft. That’s what they’re getting with Nick Bosa. Although the edge rusher sat out almost all of his senior season to get ready for the draft but getting Bosa will immediately improve the front seven. Veteran Chandler Jones will take Bosa under his wing and try to bloom him into the player he is said to be.

By: Jared Karten (Sports Correspondent) With four of the top 20 freshmen in the recruiting class of 2018, the Duke men’s basketball team is looking to continue their dominance on the court as they approach March Madness.

By: Jack Zinman (Sports Editor) The drought is over, for the first time in over 95 days the City of Boston will be hosting yet another victory parade, this time for the now SIX TIME Super Bowl champion, New England Patriots.

By: Jesse A. Cook (Sports Editor)Sprinting down the hash marks into the back of the end zone, Jason McCourty’s incredible play to knock a possibly game-changing touchdown out of the hands of Brandin Cooks is only one of many defensive efforts that won Super Bowl LIII 13-3 for the New England Patriots. Brian Flores’ New England defense held the Los Angeles Rams to 301 total yards, 229 of which were passing.

By Jack Zinman (Sports Editor) This past Sunday, the Patriots and Rams faced off in a game that was hyped up ever since the AFC Championship game went final two weeks ago, and it is very safe to say that the game did not live up to the hype. The game started out with the Patriots receiving the kick, and Cordarrelle Patterson had an exciting return of 39 yards to set up the Patriots at their own 40 and maybe, just maybe showed us a preview of how the game would go. But it unfortunately did not. The Pats would drive down the field but Tom Brady would throw an interception to Corey Littleton on a horrible throw. Once again, that play could possibly foreshadow an exciting game, but it didn’t. After the exciting opening three minutes, the slugfest began. Every drive after that went punt, missed field goal, punt,

The Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams is right around the corner, so our sports editors are taking to the typewriters to tell you how much the Patriots will win by: JACK ZINMAN: 38-34 Patriots If there’s one thing we all know about the football gods as Patriots fans is that they never make it easy on us. Our largest margin of victory in a Super Bowl is six but for us to win that Super Bowl, the Pats only had to overcome a 25 point deficit with 17+ minutes remaining. Look out for a couple of things. Low scoring in the first quarter as both defenses will start strong, but at the end of the game the scoring will pick up as always and it will turn out to be a Goff vs. Brady shootout. Here’s some keys of the game for the

By: Jesse A. Cook (Sports Editor) Bryce Harper, Manny Machado, Dallas Keuchel, Craig Kimbrel—the list goes on for offseason names, but which of these players will receive the contract they actually want? Pitchers and catchers first report on February 12, but none of these players have chosen a team and that is hurting both them and the fans.

By Jack Zinman, Sports Editor It’s that time of year again, the longest two weeks of the year for football fans across the country. The Super Bowl is here. The two teams facing off in the championship game are the 15-3 Los Angeles Rams and the 13-5 New England Patriots. How did these two teams get here? Let’s start with the young and hungry Rams. The Rams had a remarkable 13-3 regular season with marquee wins against the Chiefs and the Chargers. They are led by young QB and MVP candidate Jared Goff. The head coach is Sean McVay who will be the youngest head coach to coach a Super Bowl at 32 years old. The Rams have built one of the best defenses in the NFL as they their front seven have dominated opponents all year with all-pro Aaron Donald leading the way. In the playoffs the Rams eased

By Eric Jansky (Correspondent) After last year’s record of 4-16, The boys’ basketball team plans to work harder, make the needed improvements, and beat last year’s record. There have been some changes in the coaching staff this year as the Junior Varsity coach, Colin Murphy, has decided to coach the boys varsity team at Ashland High School. The varsity assistant coach Josh Coran decided to fill that role of the JV coach. This leaves Andrew Ferguson as a solo head coach this year. Coach Ferguson is all about hard work and effort and consistently urges kidds to improve year after year. With the talented players from last year, Coach Ferguson’s goal was to make it to the State Tournament and hang a banner in the gym. At the banquet last year, Senior captains Aaron Strong, Ben Kaplan, and Alex Kaufmann were named. These seniors plan to accomplish a goal of